Why do pigs root and in what will they root?: A review on the exploratory behaviour of pigs in relation to environmental enrichment

By M. Studnitz, M. B. Jensen, Lene Juul Pedersen. 2007

374 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Small Animals

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9c5e02c8f1ec5fb9b073ab28c145000429054c61

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In Animal Science and Zoology

1. F. J. Staay
2. R. Nordquist
3. E. Murphy

In Small Animals

1. Tomasz Podgórski
2. F. J. Staay
3. Christina M. Colvin
4. R. Nordquist
5. L. Marino
6. O. Keuling
7. E. Murphy

Citations in the corpus

• Application of the Welfare Quality protocol to assess growing pigs kept under intensive conditions in Spain (2011, background): “Other environmental variables, such as the type of floor, feeding management, novelty (Studnitz et al., 2007), and the presence of rooting features of the pens may stimulate the pigs to explore it.”
• Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus (2015, background): “So important is this need that insufficient opportunity to explore leads to behavioral abnormalities (Pedersen et al., 2014; Studnitz et al., 2007; Telkanranta et al., 2014).”
• Towards understanding wild boar Sus scrofa movement: a synthetic movement ecology approach (2014, background): “scanning the environment, assessing resources), are two key components of movement decisions (Studnitz et al. 2007).”
• Nest-building behaviour in sows and consequences for pig husbandry (2009, background): “In general, pigs investigate their surroundings by rooting, sniffing, biting and chewing on digestible and also indigestible items (Studnitz et al., 2007).”
• A review of behavioural methods to study emotion and mood in pigs, Sus scrofa (2014, background): “It has been argued that both types are present in pigs (Day et al., 1995; Studnitz et al., 2007; Wood-Gush and Vestergaard, 1991); that is, pigs are motivated to explore their environment both to seek resources (for about 50% of the time Špinka, 2009), but also out of an intrinsic need to explore.”